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Originally Posted by Suzanne S. Barnhill
Ctrl+Shift+Hyphen inserts a nonbreaking hyphen, not an en-dash. AFAIK, there
is no nonbreaking en dash, but you can fake it by using the minus sign
(U2212), which is virtually identical and also nonbreaking.
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Thanks, Suzanne. It's better than nothing, but the minus sign can be at a different vertical position (too high) and has extra whitespace at the edges. It really wasn't going to work for me.
However, I have a new workaround (I'm using Word 2010). I created a new "equation" object, put the relevant text in there, changed the type to "normal text" and changed the font back to the one I required. It seems to have fixed the problem! Although MSFT should simply add the nonbreaking dashes; it's an ugly hack.